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Eli and Edythe Broad…[donated] $60 million…to create the Broad Contemporary Art Museum (BCAM) at LACMA…to catalyze and advance the growth of Los Angeles as a global capital of contemporary art.

www.broadartfoundation.org

[M]ostly the exhibition just looks expensive. Really, really expensive.

Christopher Knight, The Los Angeles Times, February 200

Most of us accept without a second thought that museum art is priced so far out of the average viewer’s reach that a year’s salary might pay for a few square inches of one masterfully executed and historically charged...

Tuesday, July 1, 2008
by Kathryn M. Davis • THE magazine

Tasty. Very tasty. This is the kind of place you’re either told about because you’ve got a snootful of money and class, or you find it on your own—probably because you’ve got a snootful of money and class, or at the very least, refined and well-informed preferences in art. William Shearburn, a gallerist from St. Louis, opened his latest venue here upstairs in the former Gary Farmer space—decluttered and newly airy—in May for those who may be in the (secondary) market for something snazzy from the estate of Robert Motherwell, which Shearburn represents. A print specialist, Shearburn has...

Thursday, June 5, 2008
by Kathryn M. Davis • THE magazine

Santa Fe Community College Visual Arts Gallery
6401 Richards Avenue, Santa Fe

“It could have been a train wreck.” That’s what John Boyce, one of the three sculpture instructors at the Community College who conceived of and executed this exhibition, had to say about imagining how the whole thing would come together—or not.

Now, I’m a big fan, in theory at least, of artist-curated exhibitions. I am also a big fan of grassroots democracy, the basic principles of anarchy, and loving my neighbor. However, those concepts haven’t often reached their highest manifestation in this world of ours....

Tuesday, May 1, 2007
by Kathryn M. Davis • THE magazine